papilio

papilio (plural papilios)

1. (zoology) Any butterfly of the genus Papilio.

Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

• IPA^(key): /papiˈlio/

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: pa‧pi‧li‧o

papilio (accusative singular papilion, plural papilioj, accusative plural papiliojn)

1. butterfly

• raŭpo (“caterpillar”)
• tineo (“moth”)

Probably a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to feel, touch, shake”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ (“butterfly”) (whence German Falter), Proto-Slavic *perpelъ (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Mazanderani پاپلی (pāp(e)lē, “butterfly”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paːˈpɪ.li.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈpiː.li.o]

pāpiliō m (genitive pāpiliōnis); third declension

1. butterfly, moth
2. soul of a dead person
3. (Medieval Latin, military) tent

Third-declension noun.

Several forms through *pārpiliō

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: papiglione, padiglione, parpaglione
  • >? Italian: farfalla
  • Sicilian: parpagghiuni
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: parpaja, parpajen
  • Ligurian: parpagion
  • Lombard: parpaja, parpaj, parpala (northwestern)
  • Piedmontese: parpajon, parpajora, parpajola
  • Romagnol: parpaja, pavaja, pavajòt
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: paveillon
    • → English: pavilion
    • French: pavillon
    • Portuguese: pavilhão
    • Spanish: pabellón
  • Old French: papeillon (possibly semilearned)
    • French: papillon
  • Franco-Provençal: parpelyon, papelyon

    Valdôtain pavilhon

• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pavelló, papalló, papallona, papaió
  • Occitan: parpalhon, parpalhòl, parpalhòu

    Gascon: pavalh, pavalhon, parpalha, parpalh

    Languedocien: parpanhòl (meridional), parpalhòt (oriental)

• Borrowings
  • → Esperanto: papilio
  • → Ido: papiliono
  • → Old Irish: pupall
    • Irish: puball
  • → Italian: papilione
  • → Norman: papillote
  • → Middle Welsh: pebyll
    • Welsh: pabell

• “papilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “papilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "papilio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• papilio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “papilio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers